Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software engineering approach to IT operations. ... SRE takes the tasks that have historically been done by operations teams, often manually, and instead gives them to engineers or ops teams who use software and automation to solve problems and manage production systems.

Does a site reliability engineer code?

Site reliability engineers typically spend up to 50% of their time dealing with the daily care and feeding of software applications. They spend the rest of their time writing code like any other software developer would.

How do you become a site reliability engineer?